«Other related documents and texts» * A LETTER FROM MOSCOW (8 August 1968) The original impetus for the creation of the "Index on Censorship" magazine came from an Open Letter addressed "To World Public Opinion" by two Soviet dissenters, Pavel Litvinov and Larissa Bogoraz. Describing "the atmosphere of illegality" surrounding the January 1968 trial of … Continue reading Soviet Dissent & “Index on Censorship”
Category: Protests
The Death of Anatoly Marchenko (1938-1986)
«Vesti iz SSSR» [R], 1986 (22/23-1; 15 December). On 8 December 1986 Anatoly Tikhonovich MARCHENKO (b. 1938), a political prisoner for many years, died in the maximum-security Chistopol Prison (Tatarstan). * HUNGER STRIKE For several months prior to his death, Marchenko had been on hunger strike, which he began on 8 August 1986 (1986: 17-7). … Continue reading The Death of Anatoly Marchenko (1938-1986)
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